Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-11-24
STATE NEWS.
ASpRoscosGS.

| ANpRosCoGGIN.
James E. Jordan, an e1-soldier, was il
Lewiston Monday morning. says the Lewis
ton Journal 10 adjust some pension matters
| When he had completed his business he went
out and fell among evil companions. With
six drinks in his system and quart of rum
in bottle he started for his home in Otis
! field. What then TRANSFERRED Is not recorded
but when next seen he was about a mile and
a half on his way and there was a CHASTITY
wound in his head He had fallen from the
| seat OF his wagon 10 the ground. People
found him standing between the wheels OF
his vehicle. yainly endeavoring TO climb back
TO the seat. Blood WAS pouring down his
face and dyeing his shirt front. Officers of
| the police force assisted him TO Auburn ca
| boose. where DIR. Sturgis dressed his wounds.
Tuesday morning he was arraigned before
Judge Dresser. He was fined $500. of
which Mr.. Jordan had money enough TO paw
| sl.75. The judge reached down into his
own judicial pocket and paid the balance,
bidding the Incorporate ex-soldier depart.
HANCOCK.
| The dwelling house of Charles Blanche al
| Prospect Harbor, was entered recently by
some midnight prowler and robbed of twenty
i've dollars in cash besides many other things.
The family were all living in the house at the
time. Every drawer and cupboard was ran
sacked for plumber. They were heard by
different members OF the family but each
supposed that some of the others were up.
kENNEBEc.
The new shovel handle factory at Oakland
is covered in, the steam boiler has come, and
everything connected with this enterprise is
being hurried to completion The electric
light is delayed, supplies received 50
| slowly. Many buildings have been wired.
but wire for the streets has not come vet.
Dustin & Hubbard Manufacturing Co.. and
II. \. Benson & Co, have lighted their
establishments since the 18th as their works
are at the fountain head.---The stream is
gradually rising, and the prospect is that it
will be up TO its usual height by the time
winter sets in.
The Camden Wool Company, who have
just completed their new factory have Just
started up and are manufacturing fine
grade of ladies' dress goods. The Knox
| Wooden Company are putting new and i'm
proved machinery into their addition, just
completed. and will increase their produc-
tioll VI hit ltlts. NbOltIs anu Dldnhtts- r.
| and Mrs. W. II. Hall of Saratoga, \. Y. are
visiting at the residence of Mrs. Joseph Hall,
! Elm street.-The Camden schools closed on
Friday last, till after the holidays The ship
building and other industries bring so many
people here that scores of applications for
tenements cannot be filed.
LINCOLN.
| At meeting of the Directors of the Knox
Lincoln railroad held Saturday, il was voted
| to hold the next annual meeting at Rockland
instead of Bath, was intended. The change
of place was made for the purpose of confer
ring with the Directors of the Lime Rock
railroad who meet at Rockland on the same
daythe first Wednesday in December.
Mr.. James A. Sampson, the veteran spar
maker, who has been employed at Camden
has taken a job on the new 700 ton three
masted schooner to be built at Thomaston BY
Dunn & Elliott. He has gone to Thomaston
with his whole crew.---A class of dozen has
just been formed for the purpose of taking
the Chautauqua course.
SOMEfsEr.
subscription is being raised to put IA stone
and cement face on the reservoir dam at st.
Adams with the prospect of establishing a
WOODEN mill in the village.
WAsHINGToN.
+. H. Sprague of Pembroke, by his pur-
chase of the Pembroke Iron Works property
became large land owner. He has about
800 acres of land in the towns of Pembroke
and Perry and owns, with the exception of a
few small lots, strip land each side of the
river from the Iron Works to the wharves a
distance of about mile.
The box and nail company of New Haven,
Conn, manufacturers of wire nails. have
leased a building and water privilege at Penn
broke, from the present owner of the Iron
works property and will run a branch bust
ness there. They intend starting about fifty
machines this fall and at some future time,
perhaps spring, will put in more machines.
WALDO.
Willard Lane. an aged man, who lived at
Monroe alone, committed suicide, last week
by taking Paris green. He had been helped
by the town since his wife died six or seven
years ago, but has always had a horror of
going to the town farm. He often said he
rather die than 90 there and if he did not die
any other way, he should make an end of his
own life, and feared that he should be taken
there, this winter.--The members of Valley
Lodge intend to have Christmas tree and
drama, Christmas Eve.
Lewis Harding, of Troy, comes to the
front with report of the largest crop of
corn we have heard of this year. He raised
$50 bushels of ears from four and half
acres of ground. Mr.. Harding is a very sue
cessful farmer and besides this crop of corn
he has raised potatoes, grain and large crop
of roots aud vegetables.
Hugh Allison's two sons, one fifteen years
of age and the other twelve, were playing
around the Factory Island wharf in Saco
Tuesday forenoon, watching the working of
the dredger. They climbed up on the stag
ing near Quinbv's coal shed and commenced
PLAYING with one of the barrows used for
wheeling coal into the sheds. One of the
workmen engaged in unloading the vessel
shouted to the boys to come down from the
staging and just as he did so Martin, the
smaller boy complied with the request, but
not in the usual method of descending a lad
der. The barrow had tipped upon its side
and the little fellow fell sixteen feet, striking
upon a coal tub which lay upside down under
the staging. The men at work near by came
to the boys rescue washing the blood from
Sullivan street. The injuries were mostly
confined to the head and face, several cuts
being received upon the forehead and near
the mouth. Three of the front teeth were
loosened by the fall. The little fellow
was weak from the fall but no fears are
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